Meet America's New Largest Publicly Traded Company (If Only For A Few Minutes)

Today we passed a historic milestone in which a company making niche fad products for the modern version of the Borg collective just surpassed in market cap a company extracting and processing the most valuable product for the modern industrial economy. We doubt this will be sustained (at some point Americans will be forced to pay their mortgages, probably after the TARP 2 rescue of Bank of America), but in the meantime, and for those collecting "first ever" charts, here is Apple trading above XOM in market cap, making it the largest publicly traded company in the US.

uber-reliable bug free technology, the consumate execution of an ultra-smart business plan, walked over the biggest names in global technology with an ease that's fìuking embarrasing to Sony, Gates & Bulmer and Gooble, and delivering 'Wow' to delighted consumers with every product

Fucking brilliant company, the shit hole of corporate criminals America has become doesn't deserve such a class act amongst it

I wonder how easy it is for a chinese person to just quit thier "job" (assuming they aren't any form of indentured servitude) and find another, while trying to maintain personal integrity and demand fair treatment from employers. I wonder what the chinese government would do to people trying to stand up for themselves and demand some better workers rights...

It's ok, I realize your understanding has the depth of a postcard. The sooner america falls, the sooner you will realize why zero government is not the answer. But, I guess it's like they say, people get the government they deserve. God bless americans and their shortsighted individualistic unbridled greed.

"Regrettably, it's true, standards have fallen in smart phones. It's video, Dude. Now that we're competing with the amateurs, we can't afford to invest that little extra in quality, production-value, design... People forget that the brain is the biggest erogenous zone"

Since when is improving human communication - one of man's most basic needs, 'gimmicky'? I guess we could go back to erecting thirty foot towers and have sentries on top to light fires as a means of communication....

If we are going needs based to judge market cap, then I guess Evian, Roberts Oxygen and McCann pumps should take top billing above XOM...

The only rational choice left is now for Apple to start designing oil rigs. Can you say sexiest looking oil rigs ever? In case of oil spills they can give 1kg of iPads for every bbl spilled. You are welcome world.